: Flash, bang, wibble
Thursday night: the annual Medics' Revue, a parody musical/multimedia presentation at the concert hall on campus, interspersing acted scenes, musical numbers, pre-recorded audio and pre-recorded video almost seamlessly. Went along with the university's backstage group of which I am of course a part.
That's relevant.
At the start of the production, the usual front-of-house announcement, with the not-unusual-enough-for-me addendum; 'this production contains strobe lighting'.
Now bear in mind that this show wasn't run *by* our normal tech crew, but by medicine students themselves (yes, they did everything, including backstage and the band). Were this not the case, I would have known in advance from others who were working on it that there would be the Wrong Type Of Shiny. As it is, I had to see the tech crew themselves at the back of the auditorium, who informed me there was to be one strobe effect right at the end of the production, and detailed the scene in which it was to be used.
This did happen.
It was not the first strobe effect of the show, and I was given no warning of the other. Were I actually epileptic, and not 'merely' hypersensitive, this could have been disastrous. As it is, I fled away from the scene with my feet flying as fast as anyone's hands have ever been flying in this concert hall. I missed around a quarter of the play as a result, for I believed that was the last scene...
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Oh this might just be the best quote from a game show ever. From Who Dares Wins (and isn't that a dreadful title for a Lottery show, especially given the fact an alternative existed already?):
"What do you think, audience, should they go on?" 'Yes!' "Would you go on if it was your money?" '...No.'
Thursday night: the annual Medics' Revue, a parody musical/multimedia presentation at the concert hall on campus, interspersing acted scenes, musical numbers, pre-recorded audio and pre-recorded video almost seamlessly. Went along with the university's backstage group of which I am of course a part.
That's relevant.
At the start of the production, the usual front-of-house announcement, with the not-unusual-enough-for-me addendum; 'this production contains strobe lighting'.
Now bear in mind that this show wasn't run *by* our normal tech crew, but by medicine students themselves (yes, they did everything, including backstage and the band). Were this not the case, I would have known in advance from others who were working on it that there would be the Wrong Type Of Shiny. As it is, I had to see the tech crew themselves at the back of the auditorium, who informed me there was to be one strobe effect right at the end of the production, and detailed the scene in which it was to be used.
This did happen.
It was not the first strobe effect of the show, and I was given no warning of the other. Were I actually epileptic, and not 'merely' hypersensitive, this could have been disastrous. As it is, I fled away from the scene with my feet flying as fast as anyone's hands have ever been flying in this concert hall. I missed around a quarter of the play as a result, for I believed that was the last scene...
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Oh this might just be the best quote from a game show ever. From Who Dares Wins (and isn't that a dreadful title for a Lottery show, especially given the fact an alternative existed already?):
"What do you think, audience, should they go on?" 'Yes!' "Would you go on if it was your money?" '...No.'